Question

I have a DataList populated from XML and some cells contain only &nbsp ; (the space there was to get it to show in this post).

I am using jQuery to remove those rows with

$('td:contains("\u00a0")').closest('tr').hide();

This works great in everything but IE. It comes down to the \u00a0 that is failing. I can’t use ” ” as other cells will have some spaces in them, and &nbsp ; doesn’t do anything either.

Any help on how to remove the row if a cell in it contains &nbsp ;?

Answer 1

Can you check the following solution?

 $(document).ready(function () {
     $.each($('td'), function (e, i) { if ($.trim($(i).text()).length == 0) { $(i).closest('tr').remove(); } });
});